LOL. My kids were navigating vitual cities before they could talk.

Did you use it with a kinect? It was designed for use with a kinect from what I can tell. Were you using it as a home entertainment hub? I upgraded last weekend, and yes a lot of stuff broke. It's either that or you run viruses from the eighties. I enjoy then new interface, and am excited that all the content from my xbox will be available on my pc, which is a lot easier to hack than an xbox. go back, load all your movies, turn on netflix, amazon prime, buy a kinect and play with the development kit. Hook it up to a 42" screen. Until you have done that, then you have not tried windows 8.

according to Julie Larson-Green, the Microsoft executive who leads Windows product development also showed she enjoys getting a paycheck and is willing to skew any set of numbers as she is told to. Early adoption of her pay check as an executive has led to a quick adaption of weasling positions and stats to make the higher ups, and HR, happy. She expects, as an early adopter of her pay, that future trends will encourage more of this same behavior leading to hoped for increase in pay adoption.

Everything you say is 100 percent correct. All I'm saying is that North America is poised to weather the coming storm better than anywhere else, save perhaps australia, and the differences will be so extreme that we actually maintain and acccelerate our domination of the world economy.

My uncle died on breezy point. That being said, we seem to have dealt well with the impact of sandy, so I would disagree with the statement that we are not dealing with the inundation of New York effectively. That being said, a relatively instantaneous release of carbon in arctic soils coul possibly push the rate of climate change beyong the ability of most areas of the planet to cope with. I don't think North America is one of those areas. North America generally benefits from increased dysfunction in the world economic system. This has been shown time and time again. Financial collapse generate by wall street that rippled worldwide has resulted in people buying dollars for their percieved stability, allowing the US to maintain huge trade deficits, budget deficits, and a relatively stable currency. The chaos of world war II helped america become the dominant economy of the twentieth century. The USA's good relationship with canada, canada's small population and willingness to accept educated immigrants may,with massive damage to the climate of areas of the world that are already overstressed and overpopulated could be very much in the interest of the united states. This would cause disruption in the short term but may set north america up as the last standing first world country after all is said and done.

A large part of health care being expensive is due to doctor's being on a pay per unit of activity billing style instead of on a salary. American health care, per individual, is more expensive than most NHS and it still leaves out the previously cited 30 million people. Stop and think about it for a second. If a specialist surgeon got a set salary instead of getting a headhunter fee for each operation that he/she in fact sets, what do you think would be less expensive? Is it entitlement to make sure that our elders, after working their whole lives, are not just cast out onto the street to starve and die of disease? Perhaps medicare is so out of whack because private health insurers reap 65 years of relatively happy profits from relatively healthy people, and then when retirement comes on they walk away with that money and leave the taxpayers with the bill? If old people on medicare were in the same insurance pool as people in their thirties then the system would work. It is private companies walking away with 60 years of premiums that is the issue here. Please stop getting your information from conservative radio hosts and parroting it all over the internet, you are embarrassing yourself.

I am not sure what to tell you. More people getting better lifestyles = a warmer planet. We could solve global warming right now, all we have to do is start killing things. Global warming due to human activity is a walk in the park compared to the cataclysmic climate change the world experienced 12,900 years ago when a comet impacted with the planet and dropped the temperatures near chigago in 2 years to the same levels they were when Chicago had a mile of ice on it. If it gets too warm where you live, then move. That is why animals evolved legs. I am in support of minimizing the levels of carbon dioxide as best we can, but climate change is a reality. Cataclysmic climate change is a common occurence on our planet. If you feel that creating a museum of what the earth used to be is more important than humanity advancing our civilization to the point where we can take the life forms on this planet and colonize others then you are a luddite. In the future global warming will be called terraforming and it will occur on mars.

I work for a company that cleans groundwater in the marcellus play area. Fracking is not capable of "Destroying" underground water supplies, it can temporarily pollute some areas. The chemicals involved in fracking are not that bad. It is a rather simple and straightforward process to clean up groundwater. Currently, most of our really bad cleanup jobs involve gasoline spills, which are much more toxic, and of an order of magnitude more common. What your should really be worried about is in-situ partial combustion of coal seams. Now that mining coal is becoming less competitive this process may take off.

I remember when I could just open up a command prompt in windows nt to bypass the security. I don't think this was ever possible with unix.

Geekoid. Sorry I missed your comment the other week to my post. You commented that I was wrong wrong wrong when I stated that jesus was for returning all of the money to caeser and just sharing the food. I have over 10 years of bible study, 20 years after that of independent study on religion, and am interested on any facts you have from the bible that contradict my assertation on this. Please provide citations, and a realistic motivation for the roman and hebrew establishment at that time for the execution of jesus.

Maybe a few years after these things have been done we will have a congress that will pass laws that are for the benefit of the people, and they might just pass a law providing for the protection of consumers.

Since there is no way congress is going to fix this when lobbied by the public we need to amend our political system in the following ways: : 1.) Stipulate that use of public airwaves by a licensed television station requires that the licensee provide access to the public airwaves for a reasonable amount of time. In this way we can provide access for advertising to public officials without requiring legislatures to sell their soul to gain access to what is basically a public right of way. 2) Make it illegal for congressman to be lobbied by people who are not from their district and they do not represent. Providing dinners / gifts by corporations or individuals to congressmen by people they do not represent should be the new definition of bribery. 3) Eliminate the integration of republican and democratic parties into the local election system. For example, the public voting machines and facilities should not be provided to private political organization. This should MOST DEFINITELY not be done for free. I am done with the republcian and democrat organizations wasting millions of taxpayer dollars for their own private ends. In this way, primaries need to be revised. Most explicitly, party allegiance should not be a factor for qualification for running in a primary election. This system disenfranchises independent voters. Maybe a few years after these things have been done we will have a congress that will pass laws that are for the benefit of the people, and they might just pass a law providing for the protection of consumers.

This is pretty funny considering microsoft was nothing but a good late follower to this market. Samba, if not samba 4, is a pretty easy to use alternative to AD. Setting up a file share or administering a small office network with it is very much possible, and for most people preferable. Doesn't windows AD basically copy the original UNIX user permission structure, so, by definition, any UNIX System is a replacement for AD?

I am not a christian, just have studied this subject. Usually this is what a religion becomes after selfish people twist it to their own ends. Jesus was crucified because he told people they don't have to pay the jewish priests to get married or to bless their milk, and for also telling people that if they are sick of taxes they should give caeser all of his gold back and just share the food. (often misinterpreted as a reason to pay taxes "give unto caeser..." but which actually meant not just the taxes, but all of the money. This would be more in context with his teachings than saying pay your taxes.) So. You see, jesus was crucified for saying "You won't go to hell for disobeying the rules" I find that so entertainingly ironic, and the flips jesus has been doing in his grave for the last 2000 can easily be misinterpreted for rising from it.

People have been talking about getting the money out of politics for generations. I propose attacking the problem from another direction. Proportional representation with a threshold of 5-10 percent in statewide allocation of congressional representatives, electoral college, and the two highest candidates get senator seats. (Each a different election). The threshold for representation being a majority of the population promotes lord of the flies like behavior on a local level. Whatever can be changed on a state level is much easier to act upon.